Definition of sources of international arbitration
- Definition of arbitration
- Distinctions between arbitration and related institutions
- The international character of arbitration
- Sources
The law governing the arbitration (“lex arbitrii”) and the role of the seat of the arbitral tribunal
- The concept of “lex arbitrii”
- The role of the seat
- Delocalised arbitration
- The concept of the seat
- Subsidiary or alternative connecting factors
- Determining and transferring the seat
- The arbitrators and the “lex arbitrii” of the seat
- Practical criteria for choosing the seat of the arbitration
Definition and essential elements
- Definition and essential elements
- The separability of the arbitration clause
- The form of the arbitration agreement
- The parties to the arbitration
- The law applicable to the arbitration agreement
- Interpretation and the scope of the arbitration agreement
- Arbitrability
- The effects of the arbitration agreement
- Extinguishment of the arbitration agreement
The arbitral tribunal
- Composition of the arbitral tribunal
- Appointment of the arbitrators
- Independence and challenge
- Replacement of an arbitrator
- The status of the arbitrator
- The arbitrator's mission
Control of the arbitral tribunal's jurisdiction
- The arbitral tribunal's control of its own jurisdiction
- Control by the courts at the seat of the arbitration
- Direct control by the ordinary courts
- Indirect control by a court seized with the merits: priority of the arbitral tribunal or lis pendens?
The arbitral procedure
- The rules applicable to the arbitral procedure
- The conducts of the arbitral procedure
- Provisional measures
- Evidence
The law applicable to the merits of the dispute
- The problem
- The private international law specific to international arbitration
- Rules of law, general principles, trade usages, alias lex mercatoria
- The limits of choice of the parties and arbitrators
- Amicable composition, ex aequo et bono arbitration and equity clauses
The award
- The various types of awards
- Arbitrators' deliberations and vote
- The form and contents of the award
- Rectification, interpretation and additional awards
The judicial control of the award by the court and the seat of the arbitration
- Challenges and recognition
- Jurisdiction
- Decisions which can be challenged
- Time-limit for challenging an award and effect on the enforcement
- Grounds for challenge
- The effects of a successful challenge
- Waiver of the challenges
- Revocation of the award
Recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards
- The recognition and enforcement of awards in the state of the seat of arbitration (domestic recognition)
- Recognition and enforcement of foreign awards
- Procedure
General conclusions
- Similarities and differences: an assessment
- Some doubts to dissipate, gaps to fill and defects to correct
- The necessity of harmonising relations between state jurisdictions in international arbitration matters